Eveready Company Products
Eveready Company product images below lead to the rest of the stories on the Eveready flashlights as brilliant as the sun, otherwise known as carbon arc lights:
Photographs of Eveready Flashlights: Brilliant as the Sun
Eveready brings to mind their flashlights and batteries, but Eveready also produced carbons and carbon arc lights—as bright as the Sun.
Eveready Carbon Arc Sunshine Lamp Advertisements
The Eveready carbon arc Sunshine lamp above, minus its inessential front doors and glass filter, was purchased in January of 2008 on Ebay by Larry Brian Radka, this site’s webmaster—for a meager $86.00, but this heavy T-1 floor model required pickup. This ready-to-be-operated Eveready Sunshine lamp, with two pairs of goggles and a supply of Eveready’s Sunshine Carbons, retailed in 1928 for $137.50—equal to a couple of thousand dollars in today’s U. S. currency. Therefore, although about 400 miles of gasoline was burned up to haul this interesting item back to Larry’s little carbon arc light museum in Parkersburg, West Virginia, this was still quite a bargain!
To read and see much more on carbon arc lights, read his Electric Mirror on the Pharos Lighthouse and Other Ancient Lighting.
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